Used RAF granted levels. No clue how to play.

Anyone mind giving me some insight? Have an 80 warlock with no gear and no knowledge of the class. I read through all the spells for Demo and Destro. I obviously know the very basic idea, but I don't know the most efficient way to play.

More interested in Demonology as Destruction is really easy to learn. A couple things I'm not sure about is whether to use Shadowbolt or Felflame and at what demonic fury is it best to use Metamorphosis. Also, when to use Hand of Gul'dan/Chaos Wave (only with 2+ or always). Little things like that. Any tips would be great.

I haven't looked through Affliction yet, so basic leveling rotations would be great here too.

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Wrathguard. Keep Corruption on the target (all targets), spam shadowbolt until maxed fury and use soul fire when the proc occurs. use Hand of Gul'Dan as soon as its ready. When you transform, apply doom, summon your imp army and use dark soul. Then basically spam the shadow bolt button.
VERY basic rotation ^ haha

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The other buttons are basically all situational, to be used when the need arises, Demonic Leap, hellfire for AoE, Carrion swarm for knockback etc

With Fire and Brimstone I light my path.
With Pain and Shadow I smite my foes.
With Demon and Fel I raise my armies.
I AM WARLOCK, THE END OF YOU ALL.

Hmm I get the feeling this has been moved here from another forum, if Ninjaturtle's post is anything to go on, in which case you didn't actually see the stickies at the top of the warlock board. I shall make it easy for you in that case, the Demonology guide: http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...-Warlock-Guide Brandspanking new, written by one of our most trusted Demonology main spec warlocks on the board.

I strongly encourage you to read through it and the previous thread linked in it for everything you need to know about Demonology in 5.0 and beyond. (rest of the forums is informative too if you want to know about other specs or warlock issues.)

I dont understand how you say you know the basic idea of how to play yet don't even know about noxxic. com or raidbots. com?

Anyone can understand a basic rotation of a class, but it's a completely different thing than actually knowning how to play your class effectively. I've played almost seven years and I learned Noxxic/icy-veins last summer.

But to the topic, just play your class, try to learn couple abilities every day and you'll end up knowning those spells.
Time spent playing < Actually playing

Originally Posted by Pie Eater

Have you read the planned frost mage "nerfs" ?!? It's like nerfing a hangman's rope by coloring it blue.

The best thing you can do now is to look up your rotation on something like noxxic.com. then go to the practice dummies your city and just practice the rotation till it goes smooth. Then go a zone just below your level and start killing things, just to get a feel for the real combat. Try out all your spells just to see what they do as well.

This is the reason I always want to level a char from scratch who's class I never played before. WoW classes have so many buttons to push, you really need the leveling time and experience to learn them all.

I really wouldn't recommend Noxxic, having checked both the demo and affliction rotation and cooldown page the information there is just plain wrong on several counts. Stick to the mmo sticky guides as they have been subjected to community input and refined over time, as a result it is very much more unlikely that a guide made in this way would have mistakes and misleading information to the extent that noxxic does.

Step 1)
Log on the character, spec demonology, read all tooltips, now read them again. Now start leveling to 90.

Step 2)
If you are curios about any spells while leveling, ask here.

Step 3)
When you are level 90, go read the Demo sticky a handful of times until you've understood everything. Feel free to ask questions there regarding everything. Don't use Noxxic, Icy veins or whatever they are called. It is LFR material, and is not made for players who would like to get above the 30th percentile. Elitist Jerks isnt what it used to be, and is in general too specific to be useful for you.

Demonology is probably the hardest caster spec to learn, and one of the hardest, if not the hardest dps spec to learn to play overall.

I assume you know how dots work with temporary caster buffs, and what happens when a dot gets refreshed, because that is pretty important to know once you get to level 90.